Utilitarian Review 1/11/14

So we’re getting a good bit more spam since I turned off the captcha requirement. Is this annoying people? Or is it worth not having to struggle with the captcha? Let me know if people are happy as is or if I should try to bring the captcha back.

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Having never seen it, I think Lone Survivor is trying to use traditionally antiwar imagery in a pro-war context and narrative. In other words, their suffering makes them heroic. It’s possible to make an antiwar movie using both antiwar imagery and antiwar narratives. MASH immediately comes to mind, but there are probably others.

Noah, I hope you were being disingenuous when you implied that you were likely to have voted for Christie if not for the bridge scandal. I don’t follow New Jersey politics much, despite living here, but I know he’s been terrible for teachers and is generally a prick. Also, I doubt that he’s better than Clinton or Biden in any way, and the idea of a left-leaning person voting Republican just to keep the party from going totally insane doesn’t make any sense to me. Vote for a third party if you can’t stomach the Democrats!